Ktr H Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised
on this program. Welcome to ktr H Garden Line with Skip rictor Crazy Trip.
Just watch him as wool a sign. Good morning, sun, It's
a great morning, could be alive, a great morning to talk about gardening.
We uh, that's what we do here, talk about all kinds of
things gardening. I'll jammer on for a little bit and then you guys call,
and then I jammer and that's kind of how it works. But I
want to give you our phone. We'd love to have you give us a
call. Seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Seven one
three two one two fifty eight seventy four. I'm I'm kind of excited this
morning. We have a fellow from Start of Hope coming to be a guest
on the show. We're going to visit with him a little bit and learn
a little bit more about Star Hope and some of the things that they do
there. You know that Star Hope has been around a long time and on
a serving people here in our community, making a difference. Did you know
that they provide more than a thousand homeless and nearly homeless men, women,
and children, benefits and services every day. They feed there, for example,
six thousand meals in one week. They have the Downtown Men Center.
They have a cornerstone community, Christ centered community in Houston for more than one
hundred years. Oh my gosh, that's that is a very long time.
They obviously have a heart for people. They have a Love and Action Van.
That's a van that takes essentially the ministry to the street. People have
an opportunity for prayer for shelter, to be part of a recovery programs,
to be part of training here in the Houston area. They serve Harris,
they serve for ben Bassoria and Montgomery Counties. And when I visited the recent
time, boys, it changed since the last time I stopped by. The
facilities are just really really set up well. I mean that's it's a nice,
you know, nice clean place for people to stay. You know,
you're you're homeless for whatever reason. It gives you a place to stay,
gives you meals, teaches you about getting a job, helps you with the
process of learning about getting and holding a job. There is a even a
little kind of a thrift store type thing in there. Basically it's it's nice
clothing that you could put on where to an interview? I mean, think
about this. You know, there's a lot of things we take for granted,
Like if probably most of you listening, we're going to go in for
an interview, you'd know a few things about well, I need to present
myself well and and so on. But what if you didn't even have clothes
that were decent to dress to show up. You don't want to dress to
show up at an interview looking like you know you who are homeless and because
you have a home now you have a Star of Hope home and just providing
people that platform that um resources to be able to be prepared for changing their
life and oftentimes for the life of the kids that they have. And there's
a lot of reasons that people end up on the street unable to take care
of themselves. There's there's just lots of you know, when you when you
think about homeless, I'll bet that what comes to your mind when you think
about the details of it, not just a mental picture, but you know,
why why are someone homeless? Who who are these people that are homeless?
I bet that that comes to your mind is not an accurate one because
there's a lot of caricatures of homelessness. And while there are people who maybe
you know, just don't really care to take hold of their life and make
something of it, there are a lot lot more people who used to have
a job and fellow hard times. I use the example, maybe it's a
mom living in a car with their children because of things in her marriage that
she had to get away from. How does that person have a chance to
make enough money to be able to have an apartment to put down the deposits?
Do you see what I'm saying? And it's not just like I got
a job today, so I'm okay. STARV Hope provides that bridge. That's
that's kind of what I'm trying to describe. If you're willing to change,
you have an opportunity for a place to live, training, food, what
you need to get your feet under you. There's a training on a lot
of different topics that they offer and because of that, it's just, you
know, it's it's that bridge. It's it's a way that if you choose
to take that, you have a way to get a life and for your
children to have a future. And that is a huge huge thing as we
know. You know, for about two dollars and eighty cents, which is
the cost of a fancy cup of coffee, you can donate a meal and
there are many other ways. By the way, you can volunteer at Star
Hope. If you want to learn more, go to shmission dot orgh mission
dot org. Starv Hope definitely has a special place in my heart. Well,
you're listening to garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Ricter, and
we're here to your gardening questions this morning. Our phone number seven one three
two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one two five eight
seven four. I was talking with the folks at dell Web the other day.
I'm scheduling a site visit back out there again. Dell Web has a
new community out in fulsher on FM three fifty nine, a couple of miles
from downtown fullsher And for those of you who don't know, dell Web has
been building communities for active adults age fifty five and better for over seventy years.
I remember when I was a child going out and seeing a dell Web
community out in the Phoenix, Arizona area, and I mean, they've been
doing this a long time. I'm not seventy years a little by the way,
but anyway, you get the idea. They haven't inspired designs and they
designed the programs around you, lifestyle programs. The thing I'm excited about about
this particular Dell Web is that they have contacted me to help them create a
community garden on site for residents. So think about that. You get to
live and a Delweb community, which until you see one and learn about it,
you aren't beginning to imagine how great that is. And you have a
community garden. So there's delweb dot com slash Houston. If you want more
information, that's d E l w ebb dot com, Forward slash Houston,
or you can call two eight one four or five nine zero six zero nine
and they can get you plenty more information. I think you need to check
it out. It's it's really you know, when I think about retirement years,
or even approaching the retirement years, having a place to live that is
one that you just really want to come home to and a lifestyle of you
know, I know, gardeners. You can go out to hang out at
the community garden and visit with people and you know all that kind of stuff.
It's a social thing as well. But Delweb here in the full Shure
community can provide all of that and more. Well, we're gonna take a
break. We're gonna let's see our phone number seven one three two one two
fifty eight seventy four. When we get back. Uh, Sandy, you
will be the first up. And then Tammy, I'm in love with the
sheep Love Magnetic billow And good morning. You're listening to garden Line this morning.
I'm your host, Skip Richter our phone number seven one three two one
two fifty eight seventy four. Seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy
four. Hey, have you been thinking about adding a tree to your landscape?
You know a tree provides a lot of value for your landscape. Well,
you should consider Verdant Tree Farm. You can go online Verdant tree Farm
dot com and they've got two locations. They got one on Barker, Cyprus
and West Houston and West Side of Houston. Then down in Pearland there's one
on broad West Broadway Street and then if you go up to the heights at
Yale and I ten there's another. Their Verdant Tree farm. These folks grow
many, many varieties of cold hearty, drought resistant trees. They have all
sizes all the way up to eight hundred or seven hundred gallons. And even
they have a lot of palms too. By the way, that is an
especially something that they're well well known for here in the greater Houston area.
Check out Verdant if you want to go in talk with them, say hey,
here's a picture in my yard. What country do you think we'll go
there? Well, they'll do that too Verdant treefarm dot com. Let's set
out to Cyprus. We're going to talk to Sandy. If I can get
over here and push the right button, here we go. Hello Sandy,
Hey Skip, good morning, Good morning to you. I wanted to ask
you. I know I emailed you about my weed. Can I put out
something? Um? I texted you, I mean, I emailed you about
my weed and send you pictures, and you asked if you can use them
again? Can I put something else out? Like we'd beat again right now?
I would say it's eight weeks, eight weeks, it's been eight weeks.
I would if you've used that exact product before, I would not use
it again. I would I would write and watch because it's getting a little
bit hot for weed beater. So I know you tell me to use Celsius
if you need to do a post emergent broad leaf, now I would.
I would use Celsius just because those other products are very effective, but they're
just like they're kind of hard on weeds. They can be a little hard
on Saint Augustine when it gets in the operatis and above, and we are
definitely above. So if I do Celsius in the morning, like right now,
um, joy, water it and it's okay if it gets one hundred
degrees during the day. You know what, I don't know the technical answer
to that, Sandy. So what I would do if it were me,
as I would let us get out of this one hundred degree thing we're in
right now. It's gonna we're gonna go back to some you know, there's
a wee periods where we're back in normal again. And once it comes down
and it's down in the mid nineties or even a little higher upper nineties,
maybe then do it instead of right now. It's just too blazing hot right
now. Okay, all right, thank you. I appreciate the call,
you bet, thank you you take care. You know, if you are
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Let's head out to Hitchcock and we're going to talk to Tammy this morning.
Good morning, Tammy, good morning. How are you. I'm good?
How are you? I'm well? Thank you. I have about a
twelve inch raised bed and I had bought a private Barbados. It's in like
a three gallon pot and I'm wondering if and it's gonna be in full sun.
I'm wondering if I can plant it in this kind of heat, or
do I need to wait? You can? You could if you want to
wait just for it to come off a little bit and be in the mid
nineties or upper nineties wherever it's gonna end up, you can. But you
could also plant that plant now. It can take a lot of heat.
But here's the key. The whole root system is in that little cylinder you
put in the ground. So you got to keep watering it as if it
were in a pot for a while because the roots aren't out. Once that
thing establishes, it's actually pretty drought tolerant, but right now it's not doubt
toolerant because it pumps out little cylinder dry. So just not too much water.
You know, you don't need to put four gallons a day on it,
but just make sure it stays adequately moist, and kind of look at
the plant and watch it. It'll it'll kind of move fold its leaves a
little bit, or it has a thing it does with its leaves that it's
kind of a sign like I need to I need to water. You'll know
when you see it. Okay, okay, good, okay, because I
was hoping the planet this morning. Good have fun, you bet I appreciate
that call our phone number seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four.
Uh. You know, are the folks up at Arburgate Beverley Inner Team
there is that they have created the destination of the folks that love the tour
garden centers. I do still think that we need the Houston Chamber of Commerce
needs to have a greater Houston Garden Area tour as part of the deal.
There's just so many great places here, but I'm telling you Arbourgate is an
extraordinary place. It is one of the gardener's garden centers. You know,
people literally come to town to go to Arbourgate from far away. I can
attest to that. So it's about a mile and a half west of two
forty nine and tom Ball on twenty one, twenty nine twenty. They've got
an organic food a four four three plus calcium that just feeds anything with roots.
They have a soil for an application, and a compost that improves any
and all soil. All of this is completely organic, completely easy to do.
When you're at Arbourgate, you you'll walk out and just go, oh
wow, I can't believe this place. And yes, by the way,
planned some time because you you will want time to be able to see all
that they've got going on up there. Good day for Father's Day shopping to
take your dad with you. I always enjoy my visits up to Arbourgate.
I don't know. It's about a week or so ago. I was visiting
with Bob down at Southwest Fertilizer, and Bob and I was going through looking
at all their products. I do that periodically from time to time because Southwest,
if there's a product on the market that's good for use in your lawn,
garden, landscape, etc. Southwest is going to have it on the
wall. I mean the city's largest selection of herbicides and secticides, fungicides.
They have fertilizers, all the kind of types of fertilizers we talk about here.
They will provide soil amendments and composts and bags out there. It's it's
just a great place to go because if you don't know what you're doing,
or you don't know what a bug is, or you don't want this leaf
spot is, bring it or bring a picture in, show it to them
and they will tell you if you need something, and if you do what
you need to get and how you need to use it. That in and
of itself is worth a lot, a lot of value. Speaking of the
fertilizers in there. When when I was going through the store, I was
looking at the line the turf Star line Nelson has, and it is they
have so many options for the turf Star line. The one that I would
use right now would be the slow and easy, the summer fertilizer. It's
twenty two to ten or yeah, twenty two two ten on the bag that
provides that gradual feeding. But you can also use something called Bruce's Brew.
That typically something I would use in the spring, but you can use it
on anything year round. It's an eighteen four nine. It's not a super
slow release, but it is an outstanding fertilizer. I mean, they have
a one called feather Light made with thirty three percent feathermeal for more of an
organic feeding. They have a carbo load, they have a weedonator bug and
eat it. Just many options and going through looking at them, reading the
labels, looking with tons of nitrogen or in this one or that one.
Because I kind of nerd out on all that stuff. It tells me a
lot about how they're going to be released. But Nelson's they planned from the
time they started in nineteen eighty three to make professional grade horticulture fertilizers that are
based on the science of how to how to land's feed, and that is
exactly what they've done. You're gonna find Nelson all over the place. I
of course I'm meant saying it Southwest has it, but I've just seen Nelson.
If you live north southeast west, wherever you are, you're gonna be
able to find the kinds of fertilizer that they have. You know, Tammy
was talking about our Pride of Barbados. That's one of my favorite summer plants.
It is it's it has a just a glow to it. If you
can imagine yellow orange, even reddish in large bloomstalks with large blooms on them,
it just is like a neon sign out there in the landscape. I
jokingly say, if you if you were to plant a Pride of Barbados when
it's in full bloom, stick a bunch of plink flamingos all the way around
it, and people would drive by and say, oh, what a pretty
flower. It wouldn't even notice the pink flamingos because it just screams, look
at me. It takes the heat so well that we have it's just fun
for anyone who's has one or just got one or something, just realize this
plant likes hot. It likes hot weather. So if you're thinking, well
we're going to have a blooming plant in April, no no, no,
no. We I usually plant mine the end of April or sometime in May,
and then it really kicks into summer and goes intell weather just really cools
off a lot. Pride of Barbados is as an outstanding outstanding plant. If
you if you are in the north central Houst scenario, you need check out
Quality Feed and Garden. Quality Feed and Garden. Ken and Chris have had
this place. I used to go to it on another location they have now
they're on Luzon Street, eighteen thirteen Luzon Street that's near the intersection of equipment
and a lesion. Quality Feed has all the nutrient products we're talking about,
the fertilizers. They have fruit trees, herbs, veggies, they even sell
bones, eye trees, anything that you hear me talking about lying along those
lines that they're going to carry it there. They really specialize in chickens and
chicken products, so to keep your backyard chickens happy. In fact, I
think two days ago they just got another shipment in. They're always getting a
shipment, so give them a call or go online Quality feed dot com and
find out when the next shipment is coming in. If you're interested in some
chickens. That is a popular deal right now for sure. Visiting with ken
Or the other day, we were talking about some of the different things that
they have, and they've got this whole antique feed rack that's really cool too.
But I was surprised at the variety of products, the amount of products
and things that they have, because you know, I've been through there before,
just didn't really look up and notice the extent. Well, we're going
to take a break here, get some news and traffic, and our phone
number seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four bad bad, Good
morning, Good Sunday morning, Good Father's Day. Morning. To everybody listening
to Garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and our phone number.
Write this down you want to give us a call. Seven one three
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two and two ktrh. If you like to die by the letters. This
is Father's Day. And you know, I uh, I was kind of
thinking. The other day. I was at the wild Birds in Kingwood,
most recently I've been at that one, and I was looking at the stuff
they have on the wall, and I mean, it's it is everything you
can imagine if your dad would even consider, you know, birding, backyard
birding. They have got some really cool stuff to get you started. I
mean you The squirrel proof feeders are one of my favorite in squirrel in the
poles with baffles and things to keep the squirrels out of the feeder. The
quality of feed they have, the quality of feeders they have wildbirds. Here's
here's the way I look at it. You can buy cheap stuff and you
get what you pay for, or you can buy quality stuff at a very
very reasonable price that will last you almost forever, I mean a long long
time. The kinds of feeders, of quality of feeders, a kind of
feed I bought cheap bird feed before, and the birds kick it out on
the ground. They don't like some of the low red babies. As how
I referred to him the let's milow or sword of Milo type seed in there.
They don't like that. Wildbirds will sell you seed for the kind of
birds you're interested in attracting. It's not like one bird has one feed but
a whole group of birds each of the different groups of feeds that they have.
And there's a wild birds store near you. There's one in Katie.
I mentioned Kingwood, Cyprus, pair Land bel Air, West Houston, and
I was out at clear Lake not too long ago when they opened up that
store. Go to WBU dot com forward Slash Houston and you can find more
about wildbirds and may even take Dad with you. You know, there's a
there is, like I said, a lot of interesting stuff, beautiful even
art and books and just things that you don't think about. I'm going into
a bird store. The feed and feeders and things. Oh no, no,
way, way more and beautiful stuff, stuff that really enhances the property
and can even provide that additional entertainment. I look at birds as flying flowers
and flying music for us, and that is what I enjoy is going out
in the morning and sitting and listening to the birds, watching them at the
feeder. It's just another interest in the landscape. And by the way,
let me let me talk about that. You know, we think of our
landscapes as flowers and our lawn and our you know, shrubs, trees and
all that, uh and and so we can create a beautiful picture. So
they think of a Monet, you know, the the Monet's flower garden pictures.
So we can do that in the landscape. But when we start adding
other things, it adds interest. When we when we add plants that move
in the breeze, it adds motion in a beautiful way. Butterflies going by
add color, and they add motion into the landscape. When we plant things
that are fragrant, and we have some wonderful fragrant plants. I need to
just talk about that one time. But many wonderful fragrant plants now we've added.
I'm not just sitting there looking at it. I'm smelling it. I'm
enjoying the fragrances of the foliage, whether they go out in the wind or
whether rub the foliage like mint and have that fragrance. That's another another sensory
thing that landscapes can be. And then and I mentioned movement and birds at
a feed are butterflies going by the plants moving in the wind's we have the
different textures that we can use, from the narrow lines of a grass to
the very bold lines of like an elephant ear something along those lines. And
it's just a beautiful place to get out and be a beautiful place to get
out and enjoy. One of the things that we're complaining about the heat a
minute ago. One of the other things that makes it not so pleasant to
be out there on the patio, or mosquitoes, if you have you dealt
with that. I went out the other morning to pick some vegetables, digging
some potatoes actually still in the ground, you know, trying to get back
around to that chat task, and the mosquitoes were just, you know,
they were They were swarming me, like those little swarms of gnats that go
around through the air. If you walk into one, your whole face is
swarmed with nats. Well, mosquitoes don't have to be a complete ruin of
your outdoor enjoyment. You want to empty the water at water things around.
That's the catch basins, under your plants, the sagging gutter that holds water.
Anything that holds a little bit of water will breed mosquitoes. But when
you have water you want you do want to have there, maybe it's a
little pond, or maybe you know some other source of water or some other
feature of water. You can use mosquito dunks to keep the mosquitoes out.
A mosquito dunks a little doughnut floats on the water, dissolves in about a
month, cover each dunk about one hundred square feet of water surface that it'll
cover one organic I mean, if a little parasitoid wasp comes to take a
step or something out of there before they head off to lay eggs in your
aphids, if a lady beetle stops in, if your dog or your family
cat wants to get a drink, or these beautiful songbirds you are talking about.
All of that, none of it is bothered by it. It's a
disease only of mosquito larva. Now, mosquito dunks are available and all our
big garden centers we talk about our favorite Mom and Pops, they're available in
our feed stores are eliminated hardware store. You will not have any trouble finding
mosquito dunks, but you ought to have some on hand. You may even
grab granules also, if you have an area that's larger that you want to,
like right now, get that disease all through the water. For the
mosquitoes, you can use the granules and just scatter them in a larger area.
You know, the dunks are great, they last longer than the granules.
But if you need to quickly, oh my gosh, there's larva.
Ever where mosquito larva, I've got to do something. Use the granules for
that quick emergency release. If you will, we listen to garden Line.
Our phone number is seven one three two one two five eight seven four two
one two fifty eight seventy four. If you live anywhere near the Heights,
that's East eleventh Street specifically as our target location, and that is where you'll
find Buchanans native plants six to eleven East eleventh Street. When you walk into
Buchanans, just like you're walking into a whole other world. I mean,
you know, you go, there's a section that's just all kinds of native
plants. By the way, they have native plants that are that on a
certain table that are native right here to the Houston area. So in addition
to being native to our region or in our state and things, they can
draw it all down to local Houston area native They've got sections where you can
look at all the shade plants and you can see them all together, and
you can kind of plan your shady landscape, you know, picking some color,
picking some white. Always use white in the shade. Also include white
because it draws the line in and it or draws the eye in. And
you can create lines around beds with white. You can create lines down pathways
with white. Love white. But they have everything else, I mean tropicals,
perennials, roses, tree shrubs, indoor plants, succulents, Buchanan's native
plants in the heights. You can go to Buchanans Plants dot com. By
the way, when you're there, sign up for one of their newsletters.
They I love to read the newsletter, find out what they have next.
Plus they have educational content in there. Makes it really nice to be able
to do well. I I was mentioning earlier some of the different features in
a landscape, like color and the different things we go. For a little
bit, if we have some time, I'd like to talk a little bit
about plants for scent and the just the old factory if you will benefit of
plants. So we got the benefit to our eyes, We got the benefit
to our nose, and the benefit to our ears of the songbirds, even
the sound of wind. Do you know if you've ever sat underneath a tall
clump of bamboo, not running bamboo, don't plant that now, But and
listen to the wind go through the leaves. It sounds like it's raining as
those papery leaves rub against each other. You just gotta go experience it somewhere.
Go to one of our botanical gardens here or something where they have the
bamboo, and check out what I'm saying. But it's just another kind of
cool thing that creates this beautiful scene. Your little oasis in the big city.
I mean, you can turn your secret garden, your oasis into a
wonderland. Well seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four called Josh.
We'll get you on the board when we come back from break. It's
not unused. It's not unused. You want to have. But what I
see you, it's not us see good morning, good Sunday morning, good
fathersday morning. You are listening to guard Line. I'm your host, Skip
Richter. If you look out your window and the lights are off at your
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It makes everything green and bountiful. How's that for an oversell of the effects
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two and two fifty eight seventy four. I have talked to you a
lot about green Pro, and you know Greenpro and the services that they offer.
Well, we there is a company called Orglon. Now. Orglon is
the fully organic hybrid fertilization programs for your lawn. Orglon is owned by the
same owner as green Pro. At Arglon, what you're going to find is,
in addition to taking care of your lawn, they have bedcare. They'll
do compost, top dressings as well as corroboration. Right, you know,
they're part of the Green Fro group. Green Pro Group They are really good
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going on in my grass here. They'll look at it. And they specialize
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you know, if you've got schedules and clock to be set, the
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They don't lock you into long term contracts, so have them come out tryump
for a while. See how you like it. I know you will.
It's org lawn dot com, org lawn dot com. We were talking about
some fragrant plants before we went to break and just I'm gonna I've kind of
been trying to come up to the list in my head, off the top
of my head about fragrant plants. And that's always interesting, you know,
It's like you know all these plants and you're trying to get them to come
to mind right at this moment. But I have made a little list here
during break I want to go over with you. First, we're gonna head
out to Northwest Houston, we're going to talk to Ralph. Hello Ralph,
good morning, as you're sure, great program to have. And uh yes,
so my big book contrary, I hit the big limbs, broke off
of it. I might have talked to you about this before, but and
now, and it was terrible, all this weather. It's just not really
I got a big old garden, you know, and all of it is
just hard on old man to try to get thing done or anyway, Happy
Father's Day, dude. Oh thank you you as well. I appreciate that
it's the garden is work, but I just think we were made to do
that kind of work. That's my personal opinion. Well I brained these young
kids over there. They've never seen a garden and they don't know potatoes under
the ground and all this stuff. So that that worked out good, you
know, true, that's true. I'll thank you. See well, hey,
it's I always appreciate when you call. Thank you, thank you very
much. Did you have a question today, Well not really, but I'm
just having you go ahead, get to the weather right there, just to
eat me up without my good weather. Yeah, yeah, I get it.
I get it, that's for sure. Okay, Al you take care,
have a good five today morning and maybe before it gets too hot out
there, get something done outside. Huh oh, yes, I have to
do that all right, Ralph, appreciate it very much. You take care
our phone number seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Seven
one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. You know we're in the
hurricane season now, and when hurricane season comes good, it's a good idea
walk around the yard, look up in those trees and can say or do
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Just watching as many Good Sunday morning, Good Father's Day, Sunday morning.
You're listening to garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we
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I was discussing fragrant plants before and by the way, if you're listening,
if you know if you have a favorite fragrant plant, I would like to
give me a called just let me hear what it is that. I'm really
curious to know what your favorite fragrant plants are because fragrance has a way of
bringing back memories. It just sticks with us. I mean, you can
be eighty years old and remember the smell of cookies when you would walk into
your grandma's house. You know, for example, there'll be something like those
fragrances really stick with us. And it's a beautiful thing to be able to
add fragrance to our landscapes as well. I used to know an old fellow
named mister Colson. He was ninety years old when I knew him. He's
a community garden up in the Conro area, and he said something. He
said many things that I've remembered over the years, but one thing he said,
and this was not his words, you know, he had heard it
somewhere else. But flowers leave part of their fragrance and the hand that bestows
them. And when we think about cut flowers for the house, things that
you know, are beautiful to look at. When you add to that fragrance
to fill the room, oh my gosh, it's it just knocks it out
of the park. And you can have your own cutting garden. And I
don't just mean like zinnias coming up. I mean shrubs that you cut blooms
off of lots of different kinds of plants that have fragrance in their blooms and
in their foliage. So let me know what's your favorite memory, what's your
favorite fragrant plants? And we will talk about that at more in a moment.
Right now, we are going to go to Menville and talk to Diane.
Hello, Diane, Yes, hi, I was calling about my high
biscuits. I got two plants that were from a well known nursery and they
were infested with white flies and they've spread to the tomato plants and even my
marigolds, and I don't know how to get rid of them. I've tried
neem oil, the vinegar, soap and water, the raid bug sprays,
and nothing's getting rid of them. What do I do? Okay? And
so you're I just want to make sure we do know we're dealing with white
flies. That that's the yes, the past, okay, Well, yes,
white flies. You know, we used to have things that would just
nuke white flies. We're still around those kind of things. But the problem
with those is you kill the white flies, but the white flies bounce back
real fast, they often do, and all the things that we're keeping white
flies in check we kill, and they don't bounce back as fast, and
so you end up creating more of a problem than you started with in a
lot of cases. So I always try to go as lotox as possible in
dealing with the white flies. And the pupa from the white fly is underneath
the leaf. It looks like a little tiny scales, like a lowercase typed
o the pupa. So if you will put an oil type spray under there
and do it maybe very very late in the day or very very early in
the morning, definitely not in one hundred degree sun. Put a little oil
spray into there and try to smother those white fly pupa and the white fly
eggs too, by the way, that's one way to suppress them. There's
not just you know, other than that kind of spray. I'm just not
real crazy about a lot of sprays. I find that they're a problem,
but then they tend to kind of go away. That nature has a way
of rebalancing itself, but that doesn't help much when you're absolutely inundated with white
flies at the moment, right, Yeah, they've been hanging on for about
a month. Okay, Well they're persistent. Then I would consider that you
probably would get some control with a systemic product like amida cloprid, But if
the plant blooms and attracts pollinators, bees and other pollinators, you would you
don't want to use that on its root system. So the tomato, for
example, I don't know that there's a vegetable labeled amid a cloprid. I'd
have to look into that, kind of doubting that there might be. But
yeah, I agree they they can be a little bit of a pain,
but just stay with them, stay with them and use things that don't last
very long. You might get some some luck out of a pyretheran spray.
The thing about pyretheran is it doesn't last long. It's it's there for a
day or two and then and then it's gone. But in general, they
are a challenge to deal with. Okay, I appreciate your information on that.
Thanks, all right, thank you very much. I appreciate that.
Called Diane. All right, you're out in the Kingwood area humbold A task
as seed a Porter Valley ranch New Camp anywhere up there in the northeast.
You've got two wonderful garden centers right near you, and that would be Kingwood
Garden Center which is on Stonehallow Drive and Warren Southern Gardens which is on North
Park Drive. They are just wonderful places to find lots of plants. They
have beautiful gift shops too. By the way, they have the filling stations
for your microlife and Nelson plant feud jugs. They carry all the fertilizers we
talk about here. They also have full landscaping services available for the surrounding area
right up there in Kingwood. So whatever you need. Maybe you would like
to have a container of flowers designed and they can either do that and sell
you a container of flowers or they can actually show you how to do that
yourself. Check them out Warren's Garden, Warren's Southern Gardens on North Park Kingwood
Garden Center in Kingwood. Well, you're listening to the garden line, We
are going to take a little break and come back. Ben you'll be first
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Robin bull tweet well, good Father's day morning, on a lovely Sunday morning.
Got a little breeze out there. I know the temperature is buy as
good as it's gonna be today, So good time to sneak out in the
yard and get a little bit of work done for it gets too hot,
if you're inclined to do that. If not, I think this afternoon would
be a good time to get out. Maybe take Dad out and get to
some places to shop for Dad, Maybe let him pick out something that he
enjoys it. Some of the ideas we've been giving you for two days now
here on garden Line. You know, if you're looking for a quality fertilizer
for your summer fertilization, actually for all year, but here we are in
summer microlife. Green bag six two four fits that bill. The six two
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a bag, you are feeding microbes. You're even also adding microbes. You're
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I think it's time to head out to tom Ball and we're going to visit
with Ben. Hello. Ben, Hey, how are you doing? Good
morning? Yeah, what's the question today? Ben? I had a question.
I told my house to my son or daughter in law and I'm living
in a motor home now. Okay, so I don't I don't have my
pond anymore, I don't have my lan, I don't have my tree,
all that stuff. But well, I hope you have a tiny hanging basket
hanging from the rear view mirror right and taking it with you. That's what
I'm asking about. It is actually some plot of plants. I actually have
a notepad with me right now because I was I could, I could ask
the neighbors and who cares. Yeah, there's a lot of neighbors around them
have hanging plants on their awnings and stuff like that. I was just wondering
what's the best plant to put out there that I don't have to pay a
lot of attention to you, but they stay alive despite me. So you're
talking about you've parked the motor home and did you say motor or mobile motor
home? So you've parked the motor home and you want some stuff to hang
onto the awning. Is that what you're thinking, correct? Okay, yeah,
I got you. Well, Um, usually underneath a awning we have
shade, right because the awning provides it. But depending on where the plants
located, it may be getting morning sun, late day sun, you know,
as it comes in from the side, so you kind of need to
plant. Actually it's actually shaded the entire day palm. Certain I just want
to let you know that. Yeah, yeah, that's good. Well,
when when you have a shady area like that, you're gonna you're gonna not
go wrong with something that is tolerant of the of the warm temperatures outside,
but also tolerant of the lack of sunlight, and things like impatients are good
that My hesitation with impatience is they're very brittle, and I think moving them
in and out and bouncing down the road and stuff that is probably not going
to hold up enough for you. So I might switch towards some type of
a trailing kind of vine like plant, and we have different things. They
can tolerate the shade to a certain degree, things like ivys and whatnot.
Many examples of a little vining plants that can take the shade that you could
use. That would be that would do well? Uh other types of shade
loving go ahead? Would they? Would they grow up the awning though,
because I want want that So okay, so you're talking about something that's parked
that's just there for long enough for a plant to grow on the awning.
No, not on the awning, but just just to be pretty. That's
all to be pretty, not to grow up the awning like a vine or
anything like that. I see, I see, okay, yeah, I
would. I would just focus on things that trail. I think that is
going to give you you know, the most you can find the most pleasure
and that kind of a plant and that kind of growth. Uh them.
There's something called wishbone flower that blooms it's in that can take sign a little
sign, or it can take a part shade too. That'd be another one.
UM trying to think of some other examples of something that that might be
good for that. That's a very unusual question I had not had. That
is. I mean, it's my first time living in a motor home,
so okay, well, just just enjoy it. I mean that there's some
beautiful, beautiful plants you want to get away with, you know, some
of the plants that we often would put outside in the sun as well,
I know, and milder weather than this. The trailing petunias would be a
really good choice. There's petunia. There's a plant called Lobularia. It's a
white stream as the series that you're looking for, and lobularia has a little
honey like fragrance. It's like a lesson in the winter. It's essentially the
same plant, but it's summer tolerant. The stream version is, so that
may be something that you find. I don't know if those are a few
ideas. If I think of some more as I go through the show,
I'll pop up and mention them as well. I appreciate you man, all
right, thank you appreciate that very much. Hey, if you're thinking about
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out to Katie and we are going to talk to Teresa. Hello, Teresa,
good morning, sifted nice to talk to you real quick. We have
a hydranea plant that someone gave us as a gift. It's in the small
pot we've repotted at once. We want to plant it in the ground.
Is this the time to do it now? Or should we wait till it
cools off a little bit like in the fall. Well, hydrange is going
to be in a bright shade, so it's not gonna be in the blazing
sun. You could plant it now, it's just going to be very touching.
Go with the watering. Hydranjea is one heck of a prima donna.
I mean if you yeah, they dry out for inside or you know,
in a window. They dry out for a day and suddenly there's brown leaves
all over the place. And they don't like to be wet, they don't
like to be saggy. No, they need drainage. A raised bed full
of composted organic matter a little on the acidic side is usually best. So
we need to raise like if it's just one. We need to raise it
a little bit. Well, I mean it's this one plant. You don't
really have a bed for this one plant. But no, but it's we
were going to put it in a corner where we get the morning sun and
then shade the rest of the day. That'd be good. I think you
could do that. You could go either way. I think it'd be just
as hard, maybe keeping them alive in a pot until fault to plant them
out. It is. It's it's a real struggle right now. We are
we Yeah, I would, I would do that for them. I might
even give them a little bit of a shade from the morning sun. Have
they been in sun in the pot or in a branch? Yeah, they
were, and then we moved it. We didn't realize it wasn't supposed to
have a lot of sun, or we get the sun from the east to
the west all day, or how spaces in the wars makes them think they're
growing in a forest and a forest has rich or lots of organic matter soil.
Okay, yeah, and put a mulch around them. You don't want
the soil heating up two one hundred and twenty degrees on the sun bakes on
it or anything. Also, again I mentioned the acidic a little little bit
of fertilizer, but go go slow and go gradual with a fertilizer for acid
loving plants, and then just with the watering. Remember that when you plant
them for the first three or four weeks, they don't have the extensive roots
system at all, and the roots you're taking care of are mostly around the
base of the plant. Okay, okay, great. I hope to give
that to my husband because he does all the planting. I just watch and
worry. But thank you. We love your show, we love you being
on and we miss Randy. But we've really enjoyed watching listening to you in
the morning Saturday and Sunday. I appreciate that a lot of us face Randy.
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of thinking off the cuff. I was thinking about how there's there's plants that
are I said, fragrant flowers, fragrant plants. There's plants that are that
have fragrant foliage, but you don't necessarily smell the foliage just sitting by the
plant. So that would be something like mint. So whenever you rub against
mint, you smell it when you crush it. The scents in the air.
One time we had some mint as kind of a wild plant like a
groundcover at a house we were in. And by the way, I don't
recommend that it takes over the world. But every time I mowed through that
area and mowed over the mint, oh the next path of the mower,
you just really enjoyed that beautiful, beautiful fragrance that you have with mint.
That's one a rosemary. Another one you press against it. It just smells
really nice. We had one of the decorative Rosemary's indoors. My daughter would
hug it and run through the house when she was a little kid, one
of my daughters, And I mean it just Rosemary went through the house with
her as she ran along Copper Canyon. Daisy another one. That one is
one that's got a very sharp smell. Some people like it, some people
don't. I compare it to I would say a combination of citrus and and
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Good Father's Day morning, Happy Father's Day. All the dad's out there.
I hope you're having a good day, good day planned with family. This
is um. You know, one of the greatest blessings of my life has
been being a father. It m you know, it's when when the doctor
hands you this little living creature that is now part of your family. The
wonder, the joy, the overwhelmed feeling like, oh my gosh, I
don't know anything about how you do this? How do you do this?
Uh? And it just it's a it's a super wonderful thing. I remember
as kids are growing up. Uh, you know, there's the first time
they make eye contact and giggle or something like that, and the first words
and the first steps. There's always first and you're always entering another stage and
you always feel unprepared. I can tell you that for sure. I remember
when each daughter began to date. Oh boy, I well, I'm gonna
let that one go. I don't know where to go from you if I
start talking, I may say anyway, you get the idea. For a
dad, it's like, what who are you? What do you want?
Let me see your resume, call the FBI. We're gonna check you out
and make sure everything's okay. Yeah, being a dad it's a fun ride.
It's an exciting ride, never a boring moment, right, So and
then and then when they grow up, then there's a whole new thing comes
along. I remember when my kids were young. I remember that I could
I ruled the room when it came to jokes. I mean, I was
funny. And I don't remember what year it was, probably age what seven,
something like that or ten, So definitely about ten somewhere in there.
Your jokes are like I roll or jokes right, and we've made we've made
an institution out of the dad joke. So many, so many good funny
dadger Maybe we should have had dad jokes today for Father's David. Yeah,
those of you who are dads know what I'm talking about. Those of you
or kids know what I'm talking about. Anyway, Happy Father's Day. I
hope you're having a great day. We're talking about fragrant plants here on the
garden Line Radio show. By the way, the phone number seven one three
two one two five eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight
seventy four. I mentioned the plants that have fragrant foliage that you rub the
foliage and it just smells good. You know. There are scented geraniums that
are that fall into that category. There are many kinds of plants that fall
into that category, just to be able to sit and enjoy. Maybe it's
a little container plant on an outdoor sitting area, underneath an arbor or out
you know, in a sunny spot, morning sun, something like that.
Those are all good plants. Then there's the plants that have fragrant flowers.
And again I would like you to give me a call if you have a
favorite memory of a scent something from growing up, a plant scent that you
really remember and I've always enjoyed, or maybe it's a current just a current
favorite. What are some of the plants that you like the most. And
there are some amazing plants out there there, I mean, just absolute unbelievable
fragrance. I'll just get us started with a couple here. One of them
that is just well known as gardenia, Gardenia, the fragrance is just heavenly.
You know, there are a lot of fragrances that some people like and
some don't care for as much. Guardenia is just a win win, I
mean, it is beautiful. The fragrance of those plants sometimes can be a
little bit challenged to grow a gardenia. They have their particular desires. They
want to be on the acidic side. They want to be on a very
compost acidic soil. They want to be in a bright area, but not
necessarily blazing sun all day. They won't have adequate water, not dry out,
you get the idea. But guardinia, oh my gosh, what an
awesome, awesome plant. Well let's head out. We're gonna go to Kingwood
and we're gonna visit with Joe this morning. Good morning Joe, Good morning
Skip, and happy Father's Day to you. Thank you. A quick question
on the mosquito dunk granules that you've talked about. I have a couple of
small flower pots that have catch basins underneath them, and how much of the
granules should I put in those little small catch basins. You need to read
the label, but it's not gonna take much. That is a very tiny
amount of water, you know, just a I don't know. I always
say like a dozen granules or something in a basin is probably way more than
enough. But read the label to tell you, you know, they cover
a certain amount of area. But the goal is the granules are small,
that isolve pretty quick and you get all that bacillustheringensis that's in that's the disease
of the mosquito larva. You get it all through the water and so that
that's pretty simple. But as far as how many, I've never thought about
on that small of a scale before. When the water evaporates relatively quickly in
those pots, that do you have to reapply it in every time you water
the plants. Well, it depends on how long the water is going to
be there. I mean, mosquito is all they need is you know,
a week or two to lay the eggs of the larva and come out as
adults. Now, if you're if it's drying up after you know, five
or six days, then you don't need the mosquito dunk stuff in there.
So if it eyes up within a couple of days, in need. No,
not at all, No, not at all. Mosquitoes cannot do a
life cycle in that amount of time, not even close. Yeah, and
after you opened the bag of these granules, how long do they remain effective?
Um, that's a good question. It would all be about storage,
I would say, so definitely want to store something like that indoors and air
conditioning. You get the most life out of it. I'm gonna have to
check on that. I've never thought in those terms, but I know that
the conditions that are stored in are the night and day difference in how long
it's gonna last. Okay, Skip, thanks for your help again. All
right, Joe, thank you very much. I appreciate that call very much.
Let's we're gonna head out to South. Tell you what I'm gonna Jeff,
I'm gonna hold off. Sounds like we may be visiting for a little
while. We'll come to you when we when we come right back from break.
Talking about some fragrant plants, I want to mentioned Guardinia as being heavenly.
Another one of my favorite is white butterfly ginger. There are some other
fragrant Hidichium gingers butterfly gingers, but the white butterfly, the old white butterflies,
and one I always grow it, just really for fragrance. It really
fragrant. When my second daughter was born, no third daughter was born,
I took a white butterfly ginger bloom into the hospital room and we had nurses
coming in from the hallway tracking the smell. What is that fragrant? I
mean literally it filled the hospital room and it wafted out when they walked down
the hallways of the hospital. They could smell white butterfly ginger, super superplant.
Loves to be around here. It takes quite a bit of sun.
It's probably one of the most sun tolerant groups of gingers that we have.
I keep mine in definitely late day shade. This full blazing sun. They
can take it, but it's pretty tough. But you don't want too much
shade, or white butterfly ginger won't bloom for you. A little bit of
shade's just fine. Hey, we're gonna take a break seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four. Give Josh a call and we will be
visiting with you soon. And Jeff, you're the first stop after break.
Everyone is lucky. Well, good morning, you're listening to garden Line.
Today is Father's Day, Father's Day Sunday. Welcome all the fathers out there.
Happy Father's Day. Hope you're having a really really good one. We're
gonna head out to Southwest Houston. Jeff, thanks for waiting, and we're
gonna see what's going on with you. You're welcome. Happy Father's Day,
Skip, thank you and you as well. I've got a good dad joke
for your kids to roll their eyes, okay, should it should be right
up your alley too. What do you get when a tree goes poop?
A tree goes poop? I don't know. Number two pencils? Oh my
gosh. Oh that's classic. Yeah, that's that's writing, your writing,
your wheel. Oh yeah, yeah, that's right, all right. They
should roll their eyes real good that if they know what a number two pencil
is. Yeah, well, that's that's good. So let's see what else.
I think you had a plant question as well, right, I did.
Yesterday you were talking about peppers and getting them started for the fall.
Um. I got this California wonder Bell pepper that I absolutely love, and
I got them started late and they each you know, each plant produced two
or three peppers and they're really good size or delicious. If I keep these
things alive, which I can. I got rainwater system and I've got you
know, if I keep them alive through the summer, will they reproduce in
the fall or do I need to replant? They will produce very well in
the fall. Just take summer to take good care of them, moderate amount
of nutrition to keep them growing. Get as big of a plant as you
can, because when fall comes, that's when the pepper starts setting well again,
and you're gonna you're gonna be able to u Well, great, that's
good news. I've been using the fish fertilizer. It seems to be working
for me. I can't overfertilize it and kill them. Well that's good.
Yep, they're not going to that works. Well. Yeah, there's a
lot of good fertilizers out there that'll that'll they'll do real well and and keep
those things going just graduating. That's good news because I've got about fifteen of
them, and I really, I really want to take advantage of getting some
some more good peppers out of these things, because they're they're a great pepper.
That variety. Yeah, that's a great one. Yeah, it's a
it's an over a well known I've just been famous a long time. Yeah,
there's so many varieties now out, I tell you, but that's one
of the old standards we compare things against. Well, thanks, I appreciate
a happy bathers. Thanks for the dog joke, our dad joke too.
I appreciate that You're welcome our phone number seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four seven one three two one two five eight seven four. So
what are we talking about this morning? Well, I'm kind of on a
let's talk fragrant plants kick saying if you guys have any favorite plants that are
fragrant, that's what we're aiming for. What are the favorite what are the
memories that come back from fragrant plants. I grew up in South Texas,
just south San Antonio, a little tongue called Jordenton, and up all the
way up in through the hill country. We had a plant Texas Mountain Laurel.
And you have them over here too. I mean they can grow here.
You just have to put them on a very well drained mound here in
Houston because they don't like a swamp. They want definitely good drainage, which
is what you get on the limestone hills of Central Texas. But Texas Mountain
Laurel has a gaudy fragrance. If you can call a fragrance gaudy, then
I think that would be what I would call Texas Mount Laurel. It's that
great bubblegum smell, remember the super bubble, great bubblegum. Just a gaudy
grape fragrance. That's it. And boy when it blooms, I mean it
fills the air with that fragrance and there it's a beautiful plant. I love
the beautiful blooms. It's almost like a bush shrub slash tree version of blue
bonnets. That's what I think of when I see the blooms. It kind
of a spike bloom with kind of a bluish purple flower to it. Very
pretty, very pretty Texas Mountain Laurel. That would be one of my memories
growing up and enjoying that fragrance. We had another thing, and this was
brush down in South Texas. It is called whitebrush, and whitebrush is the
genus on Loisia, and whitebrush was really popular with beekeepers for making honey.
It makes a real clear honey, nice honey. But there's a plant,
it's a Loisia genus, a Loysia regatta, and it is a sweet almond
bush. That's what we call it. Now they get kind of large.
They're not just a little compact version. We need someone to develop a compact
version. But they put a sweet almond fragrance in the air. To me,
it's kind of a vanilla like fragrance in the air that is just unbelievable.
So when you're planting these kinds of things, like if it's a summer
bloomer like sweet almond, is the prevailing wind typically in summers from the southwest,
and so you would want to put it maybe on the southwest or southwest
southwest side of the of a patio where you would sit so you can go
out and enjoy that fragrance. That's really beautiful. There's there's many others.
I'd love to hear your favorites, but give us a call seven one,
three two into five eight seven four. We'll talk about fragrances as well.
Uh. Also, I will tolerate dad jokes as long as you know you
keep it clean. I'd like to stay in the air. But one of
my one of my favorite dad jokes is, uh, if a child refuses
to take a nap or they resisting arrest. But I need a josh,
I need a soundtrack, I guess, or canned laughter in the background,
a rim shot. Thank you, thank you for for jokes telling them into
a debt dead room. Thank you, thank you. I've been here all
week. I'll be here all week. All right, let's talk some more
about fragrance um. The Another fragrant plant that I that I enjoy a lot
is the um a lissum. A lissum is the plant we grow in the
winter time, and it will take some heat. They've developed a lissum into
a form. It's a listam is the genus Lobularia, and I refer to
this new plant as labularia. It's just sort of a way of separating it
from winter lissum. But a labulary a white stream series, the white stream,
there's a couple of other series like that. It looks just like a
lism because it is a lissum. But a lissum has a honey fragrance.
Now, if you just have one plant, it's not gonna fill the yard
with honey fragrance. But if you have a bunch of it, like I
was at at the Antique rosenpur In one time, walking down a walkway and
it was lined with a lissum and oh my gosh, you could really smell
it. You could enjoy it. So if you were sitting and you had
some maybe spilling over the sides of a pot, it's a plant that sort
of trails slow, sort of like a lava flow in terms of trailing over
the sides of the pot. You can put that close by where you're sitting
and enjoy the fragrance. And a lot of the old time petunias are the
same way. They have that ability to provide a wonderful little fragrance. I
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to taking a break here. I've got a couple of calls on Kay and
Paul. We will be getting to you very quick after we come back to
break. If you'd like to give us a call seven one three two one
two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one two five eight seven four.
If you've got a favorite favorite fragrance memory, let me hear about it.
If you've got a good dad joke, I'll listen to that too.
You've been listening to garden Line, and we love talking to our callers,
and we love talking about plants. This is your opportunity to call and ask
questions. I know a lot of folks listen but don't call. Maybe they
just feel like you know I don't want to be on the air. What
if I say something stupid or whatever. Don't worry about that. We'll walk
you through it. Let's get whatever kind of questions you have answered. There'll
be other people that have the questions you have. Believe it or not that
is true. And here's my favorite example. Even if you call and say,
let's see when I plant a plant, does a greenside go up or
down? Well, there'll be some other people that might be at that level
as well. So I worry about that. Don't worry about stupid questions.
I'll worry about the stupid answers. How about that. We're gonna be back
real soon. I hope you hang around for us. For the next hour,
the eight o'clock hour, we have a special guest, special guest from
Star of Hope Mission katrh Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products
or services advertised on this program. Welcome to KTRH Garden Line with Skip Rictor.
So please just watching Good Morning, Good Sunday Morning, Father's Day Morning,
Happy Father's Date. All the dad's out there. You're listening to Garden
Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we are here to answer
your gardening calls. I've got a special guest coming up in just a bit
here from Star of Hope Mission, and we are going to tell you some
things that I am sure you probably don't know about Star of Hope. First,
let's head out real quick. We're gonna go to pair Land and talk
to Kay. Hello, Kay, good morning, Good morning, Skip.
Thank you for taking my call, and Happy Father's Day. You're welcome.
I talked to you a couple of weeks ago about this big long bed I
have in my backyard that was taken over with Virginia buttonweed and bermid grass.
I've gotten most of it pulled out myself, away from my existing plants.
I had eleven plants, hibiscus and blue plumbago, and they're two left,
one hibiscus and one blue plumbago that survived the freeze. They were planted late
last fall, so I think they just didn't have time to get their roots
established against the freeze. Anyway, right now, I've gotten some round up.
Is it too hot now to use round up? Or can I use
it on the existing weeds that are away from the good plan. You can
use it on the weeds, don't pump up the sprayer too much. You
don't want to create a miss you're on course droplets because it will drift and
get on your good plants. And it's a little breeze breezy out there.
It's breezy early in the morning. Sometimes it's kind of hard to find a
time on the wednesnight blowing. I would use a wiper applicator to just wipe
it on the button weed and that way you don't have it flying through the
air at all. I think I've got too much to do that. It
would take me all day. Oh wow, Okay, Well it's a forty
foot bed. It's it's pretty long, and it's got a lot of weeds
in it. Okay, um, yeah, that's okay, that's that's fine,
Thank you all very much. Is it too? Is get This bed
gets about five to six hours of hot sun midday sun? Is that too
much for hibiscus? They're the blue plant. Well they're both blooming real good
right now and looking good, the two of them. Hibiscus and plumbago both
can take sun. Great. Okay, thank you, and have a great
day, you bet you two. Let's head out to Troy, Alabama and
talk to Paul, Paul, are you really in the state of Alabama?
You got it all right? Main drag to plant in my city beach.
Welcome to garden line. What's up? Oh, let's go with gardenia,
sweet shrub and honeysuckle. Oh, guardenya, sweet shrub and honeysuckle. Yeah,
the old yellow and white honeysuckle. What when you say sweet shrub,
describe that to me? What are you talking about? The shrub with sweet
fresh grip bush that used to the old folks headed a long fence rose.
Yes, once you drove in you could smell it. My neighbor's got one
of them. It's got a little pink flower that smells when they the whole
plants. Women, you can smell it. Not as strong as a gardenia,
but it is great. Wow. All right, that's gut's good.
I like that. I'll make a note of that when I'm at the check
that out any other What what I hear? Rose soil? I've never seen
a bag with rose soil. And what's the mix of rose though? Rose
soil is a composted mix that has been screened and blended to where you you
have the ideal internal drainage. But it still has the ability to hold water.
It's it's not as heavy in terms of mucky, you know, density,
as maybe a potting soil would be. So it's going to provide a
little bit better aeration and drainage, especially when we get a little bit too
much rain. Say, no peat moss in I don't think any rose soils,
true rose soils, are gonna have peat moss in them. I could
be wrong about that. I'm not aware of any that do, and I
would be really surprised if they did. No problem. I just notice out
here where you go they got stacks of peat moss. That's right. What
about oak leaves? Are they bad to put in a flower bed? They're
not. You can use them as mulch. I would mix them in the
soil without grinding them up a little bit and maybe composting them some. I'm
loving them age a while, but they're just fine. One more question product
ms M, Yes, what do you know about it? H MSM is
a herbicide that uses a post emergent I believe there's MSMA and MSM. I'm
gonna have to hang on just say it. I think, well, here's
what I found out here. We have a lot of what I call pastor
grace, roadside grace, Beho grace. Yes, and a guy to co
Op told me to spread it and I've used U sent a P and Zoya.
I've never used to on the other one. You can use it on
Sae Augustine. We'd sold. There is a commercial version sold as MSM and
then we call it manner M N O R A is another version used.
Just want to be real careful. It'll damage shrubs and tree if you put
too much down and drench it down in the root system, so be careful
in your landscape using it. But it's a very effective and it is labeled
for Saint Augustine and it does control beha two. Good deal. Thank you
very much, appreciate your time. Have a great father's sake. Well you
too, Paul, thank you very much for that call. You're listening to
Garden Line our phone number seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four.
We are here today. We are fortunate today to have Scott join us.
Scott Author is the director for public Relations for Star of Hope. Welcome
Scott, Well, thank you sir, and good morning to you. Yeah,
it's good to have you here. Well, we're going to spend some
time. We're going to go to break here a little bit, but we'll
just keep you around if we can and talk all kinds of things Star of
Hope. So I've anybody listening knows how much I think of Star of Hope
as a ministry and as an outreach for people that are here in the Houston
area. I would dislike you to tell us a little bit about some of
the things that you would like us to be aware of that's going on right
now with us, For example, hundred degree heat. My pleasure. Can't
wait to do it. All right, Well, let's we got just a
moment here. Let's go ahead, got about a minute, Maybe you can
give us a little information, all right. Well, Star of Hope is
about to celebrate it's one hundred and sixteenth year here in Houston. A lot
of people don't know that we started back in nineteen oh seven. We are
one of the oldest and largest homeless providers in America. Wow, you soon
should be very proud of that. Yeah, and it should. We reach
out to and provide services for about a thousand homeless and nearly homeless men,
women and children every single day. Wow, that's star of hope. And
a lot of people don't know that. You know, we want to help
you overnight or maybe for a couple of weeks, but generally we'd like to
help change lives. We want you there for six months or eight months,
we're up to a year. It doesn't cost you a penny. You know
that we do make changes in lives. Yeah, that's true. And you
know there's a instinct and a lot of us that we see somebody we want
to give them some bucks, you know, give them something to help them
out. And yes, the meeting the emergency need right now is important,
but it's the long term that you guys do that really makes change. Absolutely,
we're gonna head to a break here, but when we come back,
i'd like to hear about that. I'd like to hear about what you guys
are doing out on the streets now with a hundred degrees outside. And also
i'd like to talk a little bit about the combination of ministries and activities and
trainings that turn somebody from where they are into someone that's on their feet,
that's successful and making a life for their kids. Most of all too.
All right, thank you, well, good Sunday morning, Good Father's Day,
Sunday morning. We are here to answer gardening questions. But for this
segment, what we're going to do is we're going to visit with a friend
of mine that I met just not too long ago, but Scott Author from
the director. He's a director of public relations at Star of Hope, and
we're talking about things going on now with Star of Hope and Scott, I'd
like you to talk a little bit about what's happening here with it's so darn
hot outside. What what kinds of ministries of Star Hope are you guys really
focusing on right now? Well, we are. Sorry, it's been so
long. I know I had to push my own button years in the studio,
all the butt in the studio. You got to find the button.
Hey, listen, Before we do that, let me tell you congratulations.
You had some birdie pig really really big shoes to fill cane. You slipped
right in. You're you're really doing good. I listened to you. I
knew Rainy for years, and uh no, you you got it. I'm
listening to your audience and I think that they have accepted you as well.
You've done a really good job. I've never left the studio and met him
angry mob with torches and pitchforks yet, So I think we're gonna call that
away. You know, that does come with it sometimes, whatever it is
torture when you are homeless, say you're out on the streets. Let me
tell you, we are in the vicinity of maybe like seven, eight,
maybe nine days of one hundred plus temperatures. It's it's literally life threatening to
you know you and I dread going from an air conditioned office to the car
where it's going to be hot for a couple of seconds until it cools off.
We'll imagine if there is no air conditioning in the car, there's no
office, it's just that hot stuff in between. And there's oh, i'd
say hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people men, women, and some children
out there on the streets and they're suffering, they really are. And we
we as Star of Hope, have extended our services so that we now have
what we call Love and Action vans, and we have case managers that go
out in these vans and they work strictly with the street homeless. And we're
not only in Harris County, we're also in Montgomery County, Brazoria, and
Fort Ben County. And so when you see these people on the streets,
and I'm not talking about necessarily the guys at the intersections, but I'm talking
about the people you see intent cities, some of the people you don't see
under the bridges or in the woods, things like that. We know where
they are and they know where we are as well, and it's our job
to go out and let them know that we are working with them, make
sure that they get extra water, make sure they know where the cooling stations
are. We have two facilities. One is a men's center downtown and the
other one is a women in Family Development Center which is just off of two
eighty eight on Red Road, and that holds one hundred and eighty single women
at one hundred and thirty families. So we take care of a lot of
people. We are at capacity, which is why we're sending out those Love
and Action vans on a more regular basis to reach out for these people and
a lot of folks. A lot of folks are in a homeless situation,
either for no fault to their own or you know, we've all made mistakes,
bad decisions and things, and you find yourself in a spot and you
want your life to change, and that's hard to do overnight. Early today,
in the first hour, I was talking about the just getting our heads
around the fact that for us going to interview for a job or you know,
what do I need to do to move forward in life? It's real
simple. But when you don't have any money to begin with, you have
no where to live, you have no clothes, to where to an interview,
you have on and on and on. You guys are able to take
people from that situation and provide the bridge from where they live now to that
successful life for them and for their kids. Absolutely, we meet them where
they are and that's the important part. But you know, in what you
just described is a great evolution of you know, a new life. But
the big thing is for them to make that decision to do it. You
know, it's it's it's sort of like it it's sobering, and in many
cases it is. I mean, we take care of people with structured,
structured recovery programs. It's too early for me. I mean, we talk
about giving them an education, getting them a geed if they need or help
the go even hire in school. We help people with employment. We do
mock job interviews. We get them on the computers and let them figure out
how to actually search for a job online. We help them with dressing up
for that job interview. We help them make sure that they get on a
bus and they get to that job interview. We give them references, and
we make sure that they get that job. And when they get that job,
we say, don't go anywhere. Stay with us. You know,
we're still feeding you. We're putting a roof over your head, We're giving
you clothes. Take that money, put it aside, so when you are
ready, we'll give you a check. I say, this is the money
you saved, and you're about to go into housing. You're about to start
your life all over again. Yeah, you know that. Here here in
America, we love to think of the I pulled myself up by my bootstraps,
you know kind of mentality. And certainly there's there's value to hard work
and taking responsibility for your life. But when you're thinking about the like you
were just talking about there during that time at Star Hope, they've got to
have a deposit to put out on an apartment, you know, they've got
to figure out what am I do with daycare? When I do have the
job? Absolutely, how do I get to the job? What is the
transportation. There's a lot of things that have to be in place for them
to be successful. Otherwise it's just a bottle rocket that whizzes off in the
air, goes out and falls back to the ground. That's exactly right.
Not a long term benefit. You guys do that though, we do.
Yeah, we do. That's why we want them for six or seven or
eight months or so, so we can help them change their life, give
them a foundation. It's not like, you know, we're going to pull
you out of the pool and save your life. What we're going to do
is pull you out of the pool, teach you to swim in case you
jump back into the pool again. There you go. And that's that's that's
the whole on something of what we do, and that happens, doesn't it.
I you know, I wish that I they say, learned from the
mistakes of others. You don't have time to make him yourself. I need
to learn from home mistakes because sometimes I remake them myself. So it's getting
your getting your head screwed on straight, getting your feet under you. Having
those opportunities is huge. It's very very huge. Excuse me one second,
Scott, if you would like to talk with Scott, or maybe ask a
question about Star Hope right down seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy
four, give us a call seven one three two one two five eight seven
four and Scott'll be here with us for a little while, long as I
can talk him into hanging around and say anyway, I interrupted you, but
oh, it's just gonna say it's Father's Day. Happy Father's Day to you,
sir, Thank you all right as well. I appreciate that problem.
Now I've got a Father's Day story for you. I'm storryful and this I
would love to hear that. This is amazing. Gentlemen, by the name
we'll call him, Chris had a job and he lost that job, and
he didn't get another one, and he couldn't get another one, and he
couldn't get another one. He got divorced. Things were really looking bleak,
and then he ended up living in his car and somebody said Star of Hope.
So he went to the Star of Hope and he began the process to
change his life. Unbeknownst to him. His adult son, Chris Junior,
went through the same thing at the same time. He was struggling with alcohol
and drugs, ended up living in his car. Someone said, try Starfolpe,
so he went to Starofolpe, ran into his father, with whom he
had not had a relationship in a long time. They bonded and together they
changed their life through Starfolpe and now together they both have full time jobs working
together, and now they are looking for housing and they're about to sign a
lease on an apartment living together. Cool. That's cool, that's exciting.
You know, I'm a softie for stories, especially redemptions or as you know,
where where lives are changed and hope is renewed and things like that.
We were just watching a show last night and I literally tearing up. I
cry easily when it's a good redemption story when you see hope and and another
chance and you guys provide that, and you know, and in an environment
centered around the love of Christ and the and the commission to get out and
make a difference, to to reach people, to touch people, to have
compassion on people who love people. Wow, you do this good? Well,
I'm I'm talking from a heart here. Scott. I know that's that's
what I love about you, you know. And let me tell you I
took Skip out gosh, I don't know what, maybe a month or so
ago, and he was able to tour the facilities. And I do that
a lot, especially with people who are going to represent us on the radio
or TV. And I have never seen more commitments in anybody's face other than
what I was saying, you know, looking at and working with Skip.
Thank you. He asked a lot of great in depth questions and I've heard
your commercials and apparently you heard all the answers, and thank you so much.
We drive sometimes it takes things to sink in. There are people in
my life who would tell you that I don't always listen. Well, I'm
glad we did that day. You know. There's there's so many people that
you see on the streets and again intersections, under the overpasses, under the
bridges, etc. The ten cities. And while I try and get people
to realize is you've got to change your point of view, your POV.
When you look at somebody, you say, that's that's somebody's son, yeah,
or that's somebody's father. Today if you see somebody when you're driving around
and there's a guy on the street, possibility that he is a father that's
not getting a Father's Day card. Yeah, you know, is just very
happy if he gets some meal or a couple of bottles of water. Or
is that maybe somebody's mom or somebody's aunt or somebody's sister. Look at it
that way. Yeah, yeah, a little curious. There's an old line
from I like watching Ted Lasso. I don't know if you've ever seen that
show, but there's a line be curious, not judgmental. I've always liked
that line because you know, there's there's always a story. When you see
somebody and kind of size them up in a quick moment, and then you
sit down and you talk with them for a while, and wow, there
is a story in every human being that is well worth hearing. You know,
you're absolutely right beclous People say, well, what makes people homeless?
And I say, how much time you got? Yeah? There is as
many stories as there are people on the streets, right, that's true,
many many good ones. You know, we got about a minute left here
before we go to a break. I would like to hear a little bit.
I know that summer is kind of a lagging time when it comes to
donations to provide all the bazilion things you guys do. That's true, It
is true. Summer is probably the busiest time that we ever have during the
year at Starful, and it's also the time that we have the least amount
of support because people are you know, they're doing family stuff, they're on
vacations, and the last thing they think about is somebody homeless on the streets,
especially on it's one hundred degrees right. So we ask people for financial
donations. You can go to shmission dot org. And now we ask people
for water. I mean, we're getting people who are giving us hundreds and
hundreds of bottles of water and we're giving those out practically every day. Wow,
I would think there's an endless need for just a drink or cool water
just getting by and doing that. Well, that this is all really really
exciting and good stuff. And if you are interested in Star of Hope,
write this down shmission dot orgh mission dot org. That's the website to begin
to learn start the process of really learning about the facial homelessness and what Star
of Hopes is doing to change that. Here We're going to take a break.
Here our phone number if you'd like to give us a call seven one
three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Well, welcome to garden Line
on a beautiful Sunday morning. Also a beautiful Father's Day, and happy Father's
Day to all the dad's out there. We are visiting with a with a
with Scott Author from Star of Hope Mission this morning. I'm gonna take a
break, take a quick call. If you have a call that you would
like to make about Star of Hope. Maybe it's a question about homelessness,
something you've always wondered, maybe a hesitation you have or a curiosity. We'll
give us a call. We'll be happy to talk about that. Seven one
three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Right now I'm gonna go out
to Spring and talk to Lucy. Good morning, Lucy, Good morning,
Skip. How are you this morning? Well, thank you. I'm pulling
my hair out over my gardenias. I heard you mentioned guardenias earlier, and
I'm just I had a couple that I planted on the north side of the
house and they perished, and where I bought them, they did replace them.
So then I had lost some other plants on the east side of my
house during the freeze, so I put four gardenias over there, and they
seem to be doing pretty good. But now the leaves they're turning yellow.
Okay, I'm fertilizing them. I mean, they get the morning sun,
so I don't want to lose them. I bet I wouldn't either. So
when you look at the bush and you're looking at let's say a branch or,
the yellow leaves at the end of the branch or, are they further
back the older, larger leaves. I think it's the older leaves. Okay,
So that could be due to a number of things. It could it
could be a lack of nitrogen, but more likely it's related to roots and
moisture. If it goes dry for a while and then you water and everything,
you're going to see a lot of older yellow leaves dropping. You haven't
had the bushes long enough. But you know, as you have Guardinho's for
a good while, it's evergreen. But each leaf has a lifespan, and
so the older leaves tend to at some point turn yellow and fall off naturally.
But I think, yeah, they're only like three weeks so yeah,
yeah, so you're not there yet, but I think watching the moisture.
You know that when you put them in the ground, all the roots are
in that little cylinder of soil, and so in the nursery it was watered
twice a day probably to keep it happy and healthy. When you put it
in the ground. You got to keep doing that in small amounts because those
are the roots. That's the only place that can get water. And so
eventually roots move out in the soil and it becomes very resilient, but early
on it's touching go making sure it stays moist but not saggy wet that would
Well, I've been kind of doing that because I've heard you say that you
know about how the nurse freeze water them. So I've just kind of been
going out and squirting them once a day, but even sometimes twice a day
in this heat, but not a lot. Well, try to kind of
getting them, yeah, Lucy, do this, dig down about three inches
around them and just feel the soil and see if it's moist or not.
That that's kind of the bottom line. I can say water for this long
water this often, but really what matters is is a soil saying nice and
moist, adequately moist but not soggy. And then well I am feeding them
too. I mean, I've got the microlife. They get the pink label
for the acid, right, and uh, I don't know if I'm overdoing
it, underdoing it whatever, But well, I just saw the leaves this
morning and I went, oh, no, yeah, and this soon after.
You know, it's not the fertilizer issue. That's a great fertilizer and
overtime it's gonna really help those plants. But I think water right now,
is it? And that's about as I would just say. Let's keep focusing
on that. That's going to be the key. All right. You don't
think it's over watering. It could be. That's why we dig down about
three inches and feel the soil. Is okay, I'm gonna do that.
There you go. Yeah, we definitely can't over water them. All right,
Bye, bye, appreciate that call. Well Scott again, welcome.
We're so glad you're here today. I wanted to ask you, you know,
sometimes you drive around Houston, you see these ten cities, tell me
about that. What's going on? How is whired? They where they are?
And now that's a great question, and a lot of people drive by
and judge, so I got a job. You know, it's again.
There are so many different stories, and I've been spending a lot of time
over the last couple of weeks at different tense cities, and all I can
say is that most of those people there are waiting for housing. They are
signed up for housing, and they're waiting for the phone call to say,
Okay, you're next in law and let's go and see your apartment and sign
the lease and begin your life again. There are a certain number of people
out there that that's just their lifestyle, that's what they want to do.
This is you know, they've just put a big circle and said, you
know this eight foot or twelve foot is my land. It's my life,
and you know I want to do it the way I want and I don't
need your help. Thank you. So there's a little bit of everything out
there, but great stories on and on and on. Let me tell you
one quick story, not a tense city. But there's a gentleman that I
was prepping. We have a banquet every year. Our next one is at
February from Star of Hope and we do testimonies and there was this one gentleman
who had gone through our men's Development center, and he had brought his son
with him, speaking of the father's day. The son was autistic. He
was on the spectrum, and he said, this is where I spent a
year of my life and it changed my life ten years ago, and he
gave him a tour of the entire place. So I said, I got
to talk to this guy. So I sat down and we hit it off,
and he told me a story about how he was in the service and
he was a sergeant. He was in Germany and he spent a lot of
time there and he got a honorable discharge and he came back to Houston,
and I heard the whole story, and I was like, well, no,
how did you end up, you know, homeless? Because he had
a son, he had a wife and everything. And he said, the
problem is that I was involved in some sort of an accident and I got
paid a lot of money on the government. So I came home with like
fifty thousand dollars and went from coast to coast and just used it on drugs
and everything else, and I ended up at Starfolpe. So I said,
okay, well you're going to come to this banquet and don't be confused.
I'll maybe have like two different forks and three doves he went. He said,
Oh, I know all that. So how do you know all that?
He said, because we had to take an etiquette course before we met
the queen. Oh excuse me, you met the queen, he said,
the Queen, her her Royal Majesty. He said, wow, And I
said, how was that? He said, well, I was named one
of the top sergeants in Germany and apparently every year they take all those top
people and they actually have tea at the palace with Her Majesty. Wow.
So I said, so you had tea with the queen? He went,
yeah, I said, and you never mentioned that to me before. So
here's a guy who literally had tea with the Queen of England and ended up
at a cardboard box downtown next to the Greyhound bus station. Wow. That
is an amazing You don't know the stories, you had, no idea,
what had you? Don't be curious? Non judgmental when but sh mission dot
org write that down? S so h mission dot org. We're gonna go
to a break, Jim. I see out in clear Lake would be the
first one when we come back seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy
four. Scott, this has been so enjoyable. Thank you, thank you
well, good Sunday morning and a happy Father's date all the dad's out there.
We are so glad that you're listening today. I'm gonna head out right
quick. We got Scott author from Star Hope Mission. We're gonna visit a
little bit more about this, but first I want to head out and talk
to Jim and clear Lake. Hello Jim, thanks for being so pay holding
the morning Skip. I wanted to talk a little bit about my law and
I lost a large porchmith to Virginia button me last year. I did sow
this spring, but I also got what Randy called self induced brown spot.
I had done my September fertilization and evidently Nelson came out with a new part
product. So about six weeks after that, I added that new lawn product
and I got a few patches of brown spot, which I've been remediating.
I don't think they're active anymore because basically because of all this heat, but
I'm wondering I've got living earth, top soil and compost that I've added once,
and I'm wondering when I do that again, how often can I add
the medina has to grow long, well, I would I wouldn't say how
often can I would say, like, when do you need to? And
so look at your law and if it is growing actively and it looks it's
green, it's healthy, it's got vigor. I wouldn't fertilize just yet because
when we overdo it in the summer, we get to mow more, the
grass is more shallow, rooted, less resilient and so on. So if
the lawn, on the other hand, is a little bit thin, you
know you can see the soil through the grass a little bit, or it
just needs more vigor than I would do it right away. So let the
lawn tell you if it needs a boost now or not. The hastgro is
going to give you a pretty quick response. Is it possible that that would
lead to a brown patch? And I've got a fung your side that I
could spray on there just to be sure that nothing is Yeah, you shouldn't
see we used to call brown patch, now would call large patch. It's
a big circles in the cool season. You're fertilizing, doesn't lead to it,
but it can make it worse if you overdo the nitrogen and make the
grass real tender and succulent. It's just more susceptible. But that disease is
ubiquitous. It's around. It can get in an e r. It wants
to it, you know, anytime we go into the cooler weather a little
bit. And so I would just moderate the fertilizer. That's why I said,
let the grass to you if it's going to need fertilizing, just by
taking a good look at it. And if it doesn't, don't push it.
Especially as we get into August and September approaching October, that's when that
large patch is going to hit again. Okay, So I do have a
few spots in my front yard which is north facing, and it has an
oak that's usually been really healthy, and it seems healthy now except for I
still see soil in some of those old areas. Yeah, so I considered
that I would go ahead and in those areas spot in the top soil compost
and then use the has to grow. Would that be recommended? That that
would be fine. You know, when you say topsail compost, it could
mean a lot of different things. And so I'm a little hesitant on that
one. A leafmo compost over the top would be fine, but that has
to grow. Yes, just look at it like I'm going to give it
a little loosed here to kick things into gear and try to fill that that
bare soil in. Okay, well, this is the living earth. Look,
okay, I'll do so. And I appreciate your answers. Thank you,
and you're doing a great job. Thank you for the patience. I
appreciate your holding and good luck with that with that lawn. Well, Scott,
before we lose you here, I would like to just ask a question
that I think maybe on a lot of people's minds, and that is what
can I do now? I know that donating a Star Hope is an important
thing my family we support Star of Hope's. It is very important to me,
and I would hope other people would do that too. But I'm driving
around town. It's one hundred degrees. There are people that need water or
what kinds of things would you recommend to somebody that just wants to have a
little compassion and in a way that's going to really help and meet a need.
Well, you know, that's a great question. Our Love and Action
bands continue to on a regular basis reach out to the homeless, especially during
this heat wave. But my go's the next couple of days or so.
I would suggest you just take a cooler in your car, you know,
and it maybe that five, six, maybe seven bottles of water. And
as you're driving around town. Don't go for it specifically, but as you're
driving you come across somebody who may be looking like they're way down on their
luck or they're very you know, they're sitting at a bus stop or something
like that, pull out a bottle of water, just give it to them
and say, hey, God bless you, and we see you, we
hear you. And that's interesting. What comes to my mind when you say
that Starhope is a Christian ministry and Jesus said, whoever gives a cup of
water in my name will by no means lose his reward. I love,
even just a cup of water is that little simple thing. I mean,
Hope, we need to go away beyond that in terms of making a difference
in our community. But gosh, what an easy, simple way to just
be kind. And yeah, indeed, and I want to thank your audience
as far as being kind a lot of folks out there who are listening right
now donate to Star of Hope on a regular basis, and God bless you
for that. You do help us change lives and make a difference. There's
no question. And it occurred to me that it's almost like, you know
when people call and it's like, you know, well, there's this bush
and it used to be a beautiful bush and then suddenly it just started to
die and wither and it's not dead yet, but what do I do to
bring it back to life? And you say, water it and put these
minerals in it and this and that and watch over it and baby it and
watch it grow again. That's exactly what we do at Star of Hope and
you all help us. So thank you so very much. Wow. Well
that's a good analogy, and I guess it's good for a gardening show to
talk about it from a horticultural standpoint. Yeah, there's a lot of good
horticultural analogies of all kinds of things. Well, Scott, I appreciate so
much you coming in. Scott is director of public Relations at Star of Hope
and just thank you for what you do and thank you for what Star Hope
do. Uh, I'd had no idea nationally what a historic, big deal
star Hope was and that was kind of cool. Oh yeah, something something
to be proud of, but something to be part of too. And uh
so let's put our let's put our compassion to action. I cannot think of
a better cause, a better money well spent, a better actually make a
difference. Not just you know, walk by and give a brief, here's
a few bucks to help you a good luck, but actually do the structural
things that are needed to build that bridge for a new life for people.
And you guys, just that's that's the thing about it. I think that
that just gets me the most excited. You know, I've always wanted to
how do we help people? How can I do something? What difference can
I make? Well, you just heard it. I mean we've been talking
about it for a while. So thank you so much for coming in.
You're a good man, and once again, congratulations you're doing a great job.
Well, thank you. I appreciate that. That's very good. Well,
take care well, Uh you know you're listening to garden Line. We're
here to answer your gardening questions too, and we're going to shift back toward
that again. Now, I just want to say that if you have any
kinds of questions, or if you have any one of the things I've been
asking today is what are your memories, what are your fragrance memories growing up?
And what are the plants that you enjoy? And I've had had some
calls on that. By the way, dad jokes keep them clean. I
want to keep my job. Are also welcome this morning if you'd like to
call in with a dad joke too, But seriously, what are some wonderful
plants that are fragrances that you just remember? On and on down the line.
I've mentioned a few of my fragrances and the ones that I enjoy particularly,
So let's talk about that. We're going to have to break here in
a little bit. We've got a few minutes left before we finished this hour
up. One of the things that we get a lot of questions about this
time of the year is regarding nutrients and fertilizer and how do I take care
of my lawn. You know what is a secret to a healthy lawn?
Well, the secret to a healthy lawn is for all the nutrients the grass
needs to be present in the right ratios and available in the soil, and
so that's why we fertilize to provide that. And the most volatile of all
the nutrients is nitrogen. You put it on today, and the nitrogen you
put on today may not be available a month from now because it doesn't stick
around. It goes into microbes, it goes into plants, it goes into
the air, it washes away. A lot of things can happen. So
we want a fertilizer that's gradual in the way it feeds, and that's what
nitroposts. There's part of their Summer Essentials program. That's what that is.
That's the silver bag, the nitro FoST nineteen four ten. Here's what happens.
The chemistry of the product is it's going to gradually release that nitrogen over
time, so you don't mow as much. Standard types of fertilizer, especially
when you overapply them, you get this flush of growth and you get to
mo mo mow, and the grass it doesn't develop the depth of rooting.
Isn't that interesting that the fact that the top is growing more means roots grow
less. But that's what can happen. Nitrofos is not that kind of fertilizer.
It's available everywhere, and it'll provide the feed that'll carry all the way
through your summer season. Were you listening to garden Line again the number seven
one three, two one two five eight seven four seven one three two one
two fifty eight seventy four. We will be coming back for our last hour
this morning. In fact, I guess you could say the last hour this
weekend. I hope you have plans for Dad today. You know me,
I'm a lot bias, so I would say, hey, take Dad to
a garden center, one of the beautiful garden centers, one of our eight
supply stores that has all the cool dad tools that are available there as well.
You know, I don't know. Maybe it's maybe you would like to
take them out to a wild birds and get some really beautiful bird equipment like
houses of beaters and things. Lots of good ideas for gardeners of gardening.
Dad in your line. We'll be back soon. Hang around. Ktr H
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All the dad's out there. You're listening to garden Line and your host
Skip Rector, and here is the number if you would like to give us
a call. Seven one three two one two five eight seven four seven one
three two one two fifty eight seventy four. You know it's blazing hot.
That's no news, right, it's blazing hot, and it's going to be
blazing hot. If you planted a woody shrub or tree last fall, this
winter, even this since the spring, it needs to be watered regularly in
small amounts. Down at the base where the roots all still are. They're
working their way out into the soil, but they haven't fully established yet by
any means, certainly not within the first year. I fact takes years to
do that fully. But you can help them with a tree hugger sprinkler,
and these are it's an ingenious device. It goes around the tree. You
hook it up to a garden hose and you can turn it on low and
just water the base that original roots cylinder, which is where most of the
roots are, and as the tree grows, you just turn it up more
and more to where you can water the whole area underneath the canopy of a
small medium sized tree with a tree Hugger sprinkler. There are seven inch versions,
eleven inch and fifteen inches. Just go to tree Hugger Sprinklers dot com.
You're going to find the bit our independent garden centers. You're going to
find them at the hardware stores, the feed stores that we talk about on
garden Line. Treehever sprinklers very important for saving that investment, especially during this
first critical year. We're gonna head now out to Montgomery and talk to Bill.
Good morning, Bill, Good morning. I want to well, I
used to I remember a Manda Villa vine being real fragrant, like bubble gum.
Okay, and now they're not anymore. You know, I don't.
I don't have that memory on Mandavia. So maybe I'm wondering if it was
something else like that. But if, well, Mom, positive it was.
I mean, it'll grow up a chain, you know, thirty forty
feet if you let it during the summers. But you used to smell like
bubble gum. And they don't anymore. Well, I tell you a lot
of plants is their bread. They go for features. Maybe other than fragrance.
You know, the old the old petunias were fragrant. Grandma's petunias were
fragrant, and a lot of the new varieties now that that's kind of been
bred out of them as they go for other things like color and size and
platform. Got Okay, that makes sense. That's probably what's going on.
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New Caney and we're gonna visit with Rusty. Good morning, Rusty, good
morning. I don't believe I even said my name or where I was,
but I guess I'm on the record. There we are, there, we
are. What's up today? I was just going to talk about the flowers
and the smells oh good in Houston on Lavender Street, and that we mother
had a beautiful gardenium plush out in the front, and of course she ke
the cutting and took it, you know, when we moved out to the
Tarkington Brewery and that and I have one, I have two. I have
one anyway, I have two from a friend of mine and dear friend Eloise
Brusar, And uh, you know, I just smelled the smells and I
think of, you know, the lovely people in my life. But I've
also had honeysuckle and then the carolina, the yellow, the smell of that.
It's you know, it's all in my woods and I love to walk
through the woods to smell that. It is nice to enjoy those fragrances,
isn't it. Yeah, that's that's an important part of guarding. Thank you
for all of that information on memories and flowers and fragrances that you have.
I appreciate that. Rusty, could I give ask one question you bat go
ahead, Okay, So in my garden is growing well, but all of
a sudden, one of the tomato plants up towards the top like a lemb
or two just completely wilted. None of the other plants in the row,
not even the rest of that plant. Um, I thought, I have.
I took wire and made like a trough and upside downfall well noe like
you would have a trough, uh, and um planted tomatus under it and
they grow up through this wire okay and lay up there. Could that wire
be? But it seemed like if it was going to kill that one,
it or hurt that one. Well, if anything that damages the flow from
water of water and nutrients up through the plant, you know, damage to
stem or something could do that. Also though there's some diseases and the soil
that can cause that. They may affect certain roots as they progress their way
across the plant. You eventually lose the whole plant. But I would watch
it and see there's no control for those. But if it keeps progressing,
go ahead and pull those out of there, those plants that are affected,
or the plant that's affected out of there, because there's not a cure for
it. It's a wilt fungal wilt disease of the soil, or there's also
a bacterial version as well. All right, okay, I have I have
heard that you could plant um oh it's a bean in a night movie.
It's in the wintertime, okay, almost, and that would clear the soil
of will you Now, I don't know about that one. I'll have to
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one three two one two fifty eight seventy four Crazy stay Jomp morning, Good
Father's Day morning on a beautiful Sunday. As off, it really looks awesome.
Hey. You know, one of the one of the tasks of summer
is keeping our lawns alive by watering them when it doesn't rain. Now,
we tend to over water here in Houston, and I've just seen it all
the time, people that think you need to water three times a week and
it or more and it's just not necessary. In fact, I water my
lawn once a week. Good deep soaking is what it takes well, how
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Bill in Conrow and Bill, how are you doing this morning? Um?
Good, Brandy, Randy, that's okay. I'll take that as a compliment
in the past, I'll take that, thank you. A couple of years
ago I got a couple of drift rows as an apricot and a popcorn,
and they've been doing great until this year. The popcorn is not doing well
at all. It's got yellowing leaves that they're not as big as they should
be there. The edges are browning and breaking off. It's still flowering interest,
but I'm not quite sure why they're planted together. So okay, there's
no difference in the soil or what then doing in treatment, so it could
be a couple of things. My first thoughts are it's a sole moisture thing,
and I don't know why one plant would be showing the symptoms and the
other one not. But when you see burning on the edges of leaves,
either you put too much fertilizer and the salts burn the roots and that takes
a pretty heavy dose of a salt based fertilizer, or it's a water issue
going on and sometimes it gets too wet and reachs dye and then that follows
with drought symptoms, because if you don't have roots, you end up with
drought symptoms, whether as soil as moist or not, or it could be
a dry period in this world, or it could be something physically damaging the
root system, you know, something chewing on the roots. But it's just
not that common with roses. Drift is they can be a little prone to
black spot, some disease issues, depending on which particular one you get,
and some of the older yellowing leaves could be just some latent fungus problems that
have just those are the leaves that have had it the lot, been there
the longest, so they're the ones that are most progressed in terms of having
issues. When you let me ask you this, when you water, is
there any chance that maybe a sprinkler hits the book that is showing the problems
more than it would the other one. No, they're really close together.
Okay, okay, they're they're in three and three in different sections. So
I got some sections. Yeah, so you know this is where's something going
on with I don't know, Yeah, Bill, I don't know. I
might I might try some fun your side praise for a little while and just
see if you can get ahead of that. I noticed that each of the
drifts is different than the others, and even in growth, habit and certainly
disease acceptibility and things, so that may be part of what's going on.
Makes sense, makes sense from what I'm seeing and the location of them.
Okay, we'll give that a try and go from there. Um, thanks
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how they make their living. You want somebody who lives here and who keeps
local people happy. That's how they stay in business. If you haven't fertilized
your lawn in a while, it's a good time to get out and do
that kind of thing. I've been talking about that this morning. But if
you're putting in new plants, let's say vegetable garden plants or flower bed plants,
or maybe you're planning a new shrub. Think about has to Grow by
Medina. That's a six twelve six formula extra phosphorus in it to help support
that early roof, developed root development, and just ensure a really healthy plan.
Now that particular has to Grow six twelve six has got Medina soil activator
in it in addition to the nutrients to help stimulate that biological activity. It's
got hu humic acid in it to help improve the soul structure and even seaweed
extracts to which stimulate the fruiting and the blooming. It's good for a foliar
application. I like to use it just in watering in plants. It's got
a little handy measuring cup attached to the court bottle there, makes it real
easy. Or you can do a hose in sprayer if you want. Has
to Grow by Medina six twelve six excellent product and very successful with that.
Well, it's Father's Day Sunday. I hope you got some plans for getting
dad out and getting some things for dad. If you live down in the
Fort Bayang County area, you probably have known about Enchanted Forest for a while.
Enchanted Forest is the Enchanted nursery that is toward sugar Land from Richmond,
a little south of fifty nine. They just absolutely have a wonderful place.
It's one of the show places. I mean, you drive up and it
just looks fun. It just looks cool. The color is everywhere. By
the way, they carry the proven winners Salvia namurosa, which is called meadow
sage. Ask to see that when you get there. They've got a violet
riot an end to glow girl funny name, and a pink dawn and a
white one called snow kiss. Those make excellent border plants. A very short
statured maybe eighteen inches or so high. As they grow the blooms that is
foliage is even lower than that. Just really easy. But when you're Enchanted
Forest, you're going to find all kinds of cool stuff from tallivera water watering
fountains, to tools to wind chimes to hey, it'll be easy buying for
dad it Enchanted Forest. You can find them online. I like to go
to their social media page a Facebook page or Instagram. Enchanted Forest down in
the Richmond area. Head out. Now we're going to go to Frank out
east of Baytown. Good morning, Frank, Good morning for Skip. How
can we have a prom it it's going to be hot? Oh yes,
my goodness. I've got a yard that is taken over by Virginia button weed,
okay, and another similar grass. It's so it's similar, but it
has more of a Star of David flower on it. Okay. I was
wondering about using actressine. I would not do that right now. I don't
think you're going to get the effect, especially on the Virginia button weed.
We've gotten really high. Attrazine is great as a pre emergent, and it
has some post emergent activity as well. Um. You know, Randy never
did recommend it, and I tend to stay away from it myself for some
of the issues that it can cause for the woody ornamental plants that you might
have in the area, as well as the fact that it it can wash
off. It may be a problem. I think what you may want to
do, Frank at this point, because it's gotten so hot, is to
find a product called celsius, like fahrenheit and celsius. I've got some,
yes, now, Virginia buttonweed. There's no quick fix miracle cure number one.
You want to do everything you can to let that sell dry out a
lot as often as you can. The wetter it stays, the more Virginia
button weed just proliferates. It's like rocket the constant moistures rocket fuel virginia button
meat. So you want to let it dry out, don't water very often,
like I was talking about before. Secondly, if you use a product
like Celsius, you want to start early in the season when you first see
some growth on the Virginia button weed. Hit it then, because you're gonna
have to hit it again about three or four weeks later. Went to knock
it back another time and get ahead of it. We're hitting a point now
where it's so hot that I'm even get a little nervous about celsius. Once
one hundred degrees, I don't think I would do that. But when the
temperature breaks a little bit, get up really early in the morning and do
it, or maybe really really late in the day, do a shot of
the celsius and see if you can start to get the upper hand. But
remember you're in it for a little bit of a battle. Okay, Well,
I've got a new yard and I have weeds that I really I cannot
identify. Well, here you go, but this is my worst Well okay,
that is one of the worst that we have here. So you are
not alone. I don't know if misery loves company or not, but you're
not alone with the Virginia button weeed issues. That's for sure. What you
spoke earlier with another fellow about the msmum, I plan to use that for
behail here starting next year. Okay, but with that have any effect on
the button wheat? I'm sorry I lost the word of the product you're talking
about, the ms Oh, MSM, I don't you know? It probably
would and ms you can get you can get up in the nineties with it
as well. It's typically sold. MSM is one form typically sold in larger
quantities. There's one call manner M A n O R that's made for turf
also that is it's gonna be a little hard to find, but that would
be another option. But really, Frank, just read the label. Read
the label. That's the law. Hey, I'm gonna have to take a
break, but I appreciate your call. Thank you very much. Give us
a call seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Well,
good Sunday morning on a Father's Day, Sunday. Beautiful outside, absolutely beautiful
outside. I hope you're planning on getting out a little bit with Dad today.
We're gonna head right to the phone calls. This our our last segment.
We've got here, last two segments, and we're gonna go to Montgomery
and talk to Jim. Hello, Jim, Hey, happy Father's Day.
Well, I've got some plants and a tree that brings back some memories when
I was a kid. Uh, it's actually three different ones, but I
figured i'd get those in because nobody else is calling in about it. And
uh, this magnolia tree, which smells like a guardenia to me. And
oh yeah, Azelias always reminded me. We had the old azalias I grew
up in southern Louisiana and the old man, I mean, the old azelias,
the purple ones in the Indica that gets real big. That was the
one that reminds me of Easter. And then me and my brother we had
an attic fan and outside my window in my room, I had a trellis
that grew up over it and it was full of whistia purple whistia, and
we would turn the attic fan on and close all the doors in the house
except for what led out to the hallway where the attic fan was, and
would crank open these windows and then inhale that intoxicating smell of the wisteria,
like it just really was heavy duty, and went to the entire house.
It isn't it amazing how our scent memories are so vivid? Right every time
I smelled on a zelia, I think of eastern Louisiana. There you go,
that's nice. But I also called about my ficus. I have a
fiddle leaf ficus. Actually I have three or four of them, but I'm
trying to I had to print it back last year because it wouldn't fit in
the greenhouse. It's getting over sixteen feet tall. And I tried to root
out the cuttings and they didn't taken. I don't know what the deal was.
And I heard something somewhere down the line that you have to air layer
them. Is that true? Well, I don't know if you have to,
but I've never tried rooting a cutting from a fiddle efig. But if
you air layer. For those of you who are listening, who don't know
what that is. It's removing a strip of bark. Just think of it
like a ring of bark taken off on the branch and then you put potting
soil or sphagnum moss or something around that, wrap it with plastic and seal
it up and roots will grow in that area. It also helps to dust
it with a little bit of a hormone, rooting hormone. But just see
the roots on the outside of the plastic. That shows you it's time.
You can cut it off the momb plant and take it and pot it up.
And that is how I would root a fiddle e fig. If there's
somebody I do that. I normally do that with other plants. I have
no problem with it. This is the only one that seems to not take.
And I use the rooting the root tone hormone. I've even tried to
do it in the water, you know, and that didn't work either.
I don't know. Like I said, I'll give it to try with the
air layering, but you have to have it where you can put some moisture
in there before you wrap it up with plastic, right, Yeah, I
usually use I mean there's there are actually a little things you can buy that
you clip on a plant that do the air layering thing that you just have
to go switch for that. But I usually use just some very moist spagnum
moss. Wrap it around and then a bread wrapper or something like a clear
plastic. Put a twist tie at the bottom, a twist tie at the
top, and then you can watch it and you undo the top twist tie
and trickle a little water in there periodically to keep it moist. That's how
I would go about it, and I think that's your best shot. How
about spraying the leaves above that with some of that medina that's folio, Well,
it wouldn't hurt to do that. I don't know that that would help
with the rooting though. I don't know that it would have an effect on
it rooting. I just hated to lose all those cuttings. But yeah,
I'll give it an air layer in a track that it's coming back so strong,
I gotta I gotta whack it back again before as well. That sounds
sounds like a thank you, thanks a lot man. Appreciate that call,
Jim, thank you very much. You know, if you are looking for
anything that you need for the garden for outdoors. Maybe it's maybe it's the
fertilizers we talk about here. Maybe it is some outdoor furniture, some outdoor
decor. Maybe it's a grill. Oh boy, here we are in the
big grilling season. Ace Hardware has grills on steroids. I mean that is
like the place and everything you can imagine that goes with outdoor grilling. They
have all the supplies there, So haul dead, buy an ACE Hardware and
take check that out. While you're at ACE. By the way, you
can earn money on your purchases. Do the ACE Rewards program. Definitely sign
up for that because I belong to it, and you know, whether I'm
going really often or just going occasionally, it adds up and it's well worth
it. Go to ACE Hardware dot com and check on the store locator to
find the ACE Hardware store that's closest to you, and there's ACE Hardware all
over the place, with thirty nine of them here locally. Let's go to
West Chase now and we're going to talk to Sharon. Hello, Sharon,
Hi, Skip, Thanks. I want to thank you for having Scott on
to tell us about Starboat mission and I missed his last name. What's his
last name, Scott Arthur, Arthur Arthur. Okay, yeah, he's doing
a great job. And I didn't realize how broad and how deep their their
ministry and their help goes throughout the city of Houston. So I was really
happy to hear that. Now. Also enjoyed hearing y'all interact together. And
I'm thinking, you know, they both obviously had the gift of help and
of compassion. And I was thinking and just like he wrapped it up at
the end, I was thinking the same thing. Both do strategic help in
preparing the soil. He does it with the first of minds of men and
women, and you do it with plants, like back to the basic foundation
of what God has created here on the Earth's forest. And so I really
enjoyed y'all's conversation, and I enjoyed hearing about Star of Hope. So thanks
for having him on. And um, I like what he said, what
was it? Wait, don't be curious, No, don't be curious,
not judgmental. That's right. That actually curious because everyone has a story.
That's right. And anybody who's watched Ted Lasso, that's a real popular series.
There's a clip scene from there where he's playing darts and everyone has judged
him. And I don't want to explain the whole clip, but that's that's
the money line in it. Be curious, not judgmental. And I'm telling
you there's so many places in life. Doesn't mean you have to agree with
someone you don't agree with, you know, It just means listen and think,
just be curious and then you can Well, that's about preparing the soil
too, And that's what Jesus did. He tells that parable of the soils.
That's what I was thinking about, and how you prepared and you helped
prepare the soil to nourish the plants. And He helps to prepare soils in
men's hearts and minds. And it's God that does the work. He d
does the restoration and the growth, and but we can all be helpful in
preparing soils. Sharon, thank you, I appreciate I appreciate the call.
Anybody who's interested again in Star Hope, it's so oh mission dot org dot
com. S oh mission dot org and thank you, Sharon. We appreciate
that call. We're gonna take a break now, do a little bit of
news and whatnot. But for now I just dial seven one three two one
two five eight seven four. Josh, we'll get you on the board.
Got one segment left for this weekend. We'd love to visit with you about
what you're interested in. Good Sunday morning on a Father's Day. Sunday morning,
Happy Father's date. All the dad's out there. You're listening to Gardenline.
I'm your host, Skip Rector our phone number seven one three two one
two fifty eight seventy four. We are going to head out now to Missouri
City and visit with Paul. Hello, Paul, Yeah, Hello Skip.
Last week you had to sell on talking about The discussion was mosquitoes. Yes,
And earlier in the week, I was talking to my daughter as she
was complaining about the mosquitoes up there in spring. So she said, a
friend of hers they bought some bulch that was soaked in citronella, and I'd
like to get your pros and cons. I'm putting that entirely into flower bed.
Well. I suppose it would give some repellency for a while. That
is a pretty volatile oil, and I don't expect that would hold on for
a long term. Help. But you know, I could see a little
you know, you I could put the citronella candles out and he keeps them
away from the citronella candles. Or if you're sitting in a whole bunch of
candles or torches with citronella oil, you know, you can kind of keep
them out of the immediate region, right like that. But I think probably
you're gonna have to go with other other approaches for longer term plan on mosquitoes.
Yeah, okay, okay, very good. I'll share that with her.
Now, one other quick question. What did he say? What was
the male mosquito role in h on all this? The males they don't feed
on us. They're just there to mate with the females, and so you'll
you'll see them going around and in everything, but that they're not the ones
that are getting the blood meal. To my knowledge, I'm trying to remembers
the guy from Mosquito Ducks that was talking, and I'm trying to remember exactly
what he said. I am definitely not an entomologist, especially in the all
right, I just need to go on high level anyway. There you go,
well, rightfully, high level response. Thanks Paul, appreciate the call.
Let's head out to Huffman and talk to Cooper. Hello Cooper, Hey,
how you doing, sir? Oh? When I'm walking through my beautiful
front yard, I got these little white flies popping up. I guess they're
fo I don't know what they are. They're a little big, little like
gnats, but they're white. And I know I've heard something back in the
Randy days about them, and I didn't pay attention because I didn't have them.
So what are they? And what do I do to fix this?
So? White flies are little tiny white things. You're a little bigger than
nat, but not much. They're a little bit and they fly around and
people notice that your nose. That's true. They have they lay eggs,
the legs hatch out into larva that then make pupa and the poper underneath the
leaves of your plant eternal leaf over and you see, imagine a fish scale
that was only about the size of a small lowercase typed. Oh, that's
about the size of them. And they're not they're not necessarily fish scale color.
They can be kind of a tannish color, light greenish color, but
that's what they are. And they suck juices out of plants and then out
the back end of the crater becomes a honey dew material that causes city mold
to grow. So that's the whole issue with the white flies. What I
was saying earlier, Okay, then that that's not white flies. Then uh
okay. Yeah, Like I say, they were very very white, and
I just walk in my yard right now and they're all over the place.
Well, there's a lot. There's a lot of moths out there. You
know, when we have moths in the lawn, people worry about side web
worms. Sideweb worms are not white and it's a it's a moth. It's
a small moth, but it's still a moth. It's not like a gnat.
So I don't know what you're seeing. I can't think of a lawn
pest that is a white nat sized. Like I say, I'm I'm surrounding
in the middle of my beautiful front yard, and I don't want it to
not to be beautiful. Yeah, yeah, Well, I know the schedule
of the old schedule, but I do follow the schedule. I don't think
there's a problem. I mean, the only thing I would tell you is
if you could capture some you'd almost need one of them a little entomologists sweep
nuts to swing by, and you know I've done it before with Teape.
Okay, well, if you can capture some, take a picture of them
as close as you can get, but an absolutely sharp focus. If you'll
send them to me, I'll tell you what they are if you are.
If you want to do that, I'll put you on hold, and Josh
can tell you how to send them to me. If not, that's fine
too. I know how to send them. I think it as the same
as it used to be. If not, haven't put me on I'm gonna
put you on hold. Josh. I'll get a hold of you and get
you the right Thank you, you bet, Thanks Cooper. Now we are
going to head out to Texas Grad Ranch and talk to Bob. Bob,
where are you from out there? I live in Texas Brand Ranch. Okay,
all right, um, Hey, I've had the back of our lot
underbrush and I'm fighting your pond. Um. You know, we've got some
good sized pines and oaks back there, and I wonder if I were to
get a hose on sprayer and pull it with the water deluded chloropole. However
you say that, uh herb beside if it would harm the bigger trees.
I'm not following which herb beside, you're talking about, um, how much
how big is this area? I mean we talking about an acre, we
talk about a lot acres or what it's probably it's probably no more than an
acre and a half um and you know the underbrushing probably only an acre.
The rest of it is still a while. But go ahead, go ahead.
Well, rather than spray in the foliage like that, because any product
they'll kill brush. To spray it like that, you're gonna have it get
onto a lot of things and maybe even damage some desirable plants in the area.
I would use a product containing trichlopier t R c l O P y
R and follow That's what I was trying to say. Okay, yeah,
traclopier, But I wouldn't do a foliage. I would You can do one
of two things with yopon. You could just cut them off with you know,
with a saw or however you would efficiently cut off yopon. And then
when you cut the stump, immediately you paint dab triclopier on it. So
you would use a little FuMB brush like you paint with from the box store,
you know, hardware store kind of places. But just dip the tycle
pier on that or dip it in the tricolo pier and dab it immediately on
the fresh cut. It will move down and kill it. Another option is
if you just kind of rough up scar up the bark on the edge of
the yopon around the yopon down low. I've used wheat eaters for that,
you know. I've used a little machetti to kind of chop down if it's
a bigger one, and then you spray the tricle appier on the trunk of
it, but mix it with a little bit of a diesel oil and that
makes it stick and soak in and you can get all of it that way
too. You probably have to retreat because you're not gonna get at all initially,
but let me give you go online and type in brush busters and you
can put A and M in there Texas A and M brush Busters, and
then if you put the word yopon in something will pop up. That's a
website that used to be real active. It's it's still some things online left
over from it. But brushbusters yopon, or if you do brush brusters.
What's the big woody weed that we deal with down here. Oh my gosh,
I can't even say the gosh, you can't say the name of it
right now. But any kind of a brush like or brush uster's poison ivy.
That would be another example, and it will tell you how to do
that trunk treatments. Okay, okay, because this stuff is pretty polar after
you know, after I mow it. You know, I'm beaten up my
mower deck, yea because of the you know, I'm trying to cut it
as low as possible. Yeah, yeah, I know. If you if
you can mow over it with a mower deck and then follow that up,
you know, you wouldn't want to stoop for every little trunk that you got.
If you do the side of the trunk treatment before you before you mowed,
you could stand up and just squirt down, you know, the base
of each one. It's really easy with the oil in it like that to
do that. Otherwise, imp up sprayer rather than a host sprayer. Oh
yeah, I just use a because you want to. You just want to
direct a little bit on the sides of the trunk. You don't have to
blast it all over the place that what I couldn't think of was Chinese tallow.
But the Brushbusters they're they're going to give you instructions and if you figure
out how I say do it for poison ivy, that's how you would do
it for yopun too. Yeah, we've got two out here too. We've
got all card there you go. You just have all the fun stuff.
All right. Well, I appreciate you're being available for people to call.
I have been a happy Father's Day and you too. Thank you for the
kind words. Well, well, you've just listened to another garden Line.
We're about to hear some music and there it comes. I'm your host,
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Maybe they're walking across the fence bob telling you, hey, how did you
get rid of your yopon? Say wow, call garden Line. That's how
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and you can find out that way. Hey, have a great Father's Day.
Has been enjoy being with you this weekend.